14 minutes that'll bite harder than most 2-hour Oscar bait.
A woman who loses her identity to PTSD sets out to regain her identity by overcoming her trauma. Based on the writer/director's personal experience. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: a disability.
Acting
Bellisario channels lived-in trauma without a single false note.
Direction
Worb turns personal hell into universal catharsis.
Editing
Ruthless 14-minute runtime — no fat, all nerve.
Director
Jorey Worb
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare cinematic portrayal of PTSD as disability rather than temporary condition, challenging Hollywood's trauma-as-plot-device formula.
Worb developed this from her own dissociative episodes after assault; Bellisario's casting came after she publicly discussed similar struggles.
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